As Kubernetes adoption grows, clusters often become a mix of inconsistent configurations, missing security controls, and broken operational standards. Teams rely on documentation and code reviews to enforce best practices, but in production this is rarely enough. What’s needed are guardrails that work automatically, without slowing developers down.

In this talk, we’ll explore how Kubernetes admission control can be used to enforce security and operational standards, and why traditional approaches using custom webhooks or complex policy engines often create more friction than value. We’ll then introduce Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine that uses familiar YAML instead of custom policy languages, making policy-as-code approachable for both platform and application teams.

The session will include a live demo showing how misconfigured workloads are prevented or automatically fixed at admission time, and how teams can gradually roll out policies without breaking existing applications.